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Published: 2012-12-17
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Re-examination of the crab spider species Oxytate minuta Tang, Yin et Peng, 2005 (Araneae: Thomisidae)

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
Araneae Thomisidae

Abstract

The genus Indoxysticus, established by Benjamin and Jaleel in 2010 with the type species Xysticus minutus (Tikader, 1960), differs from other thomisids by the oval spermathecae with well-defined chambers in the female and by the broad-based embolus in the male (Benjamin & Jaleel 2010). At present, the genus includes only two species, I. minutus (Tikader, 1960) and I. lumbricus Tang & Li, 2010 (Platnick 2012), which are known from India and China, respectively (Tikader 1960; Tang & Li 2010).

References

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    Platnick, N.I. (2012) The world spider catalog, version 13.0., American Museum of Natural History. Available from http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html (accessed 29 September 2012).

    Tang, G., Yin, C.M. & Peng, X.J. (2005) A new species of the genus Oxytate from China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Acta Zootaxonmica Sinica, 30, 733–734.

    Tang, G. & Li, S.Q. (2010) Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa, 2703, 1–105.

    Tikader, B.K. (1960) On some new species of spiders (Arachnida) of the family Thomisidae from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 57, 173–183.